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National Status: Local

Local Status: Fairly common and widespread resident.

Local Record: Grade 2 See here for explanation

Flight time: One generation, Apr-May.

Forewing: 15-17mm.

Foodplant: Pedunculate Oak. Sessile Oak and Turkey Oak.

IMPORTANT - Please note that the maps and accounts are provisional, subject to change and further update. The whole dataset still needs to go through the final verification process and it is likely that a very small number of records will not satisfy the present requirements and there are other records that have not been formally submitted. The information is for guidance only.

Record breakdown:

	VC9	VC5	VC11	Region
Year first recorded	1905	2007	1985	1905
Year last recorded	2011	2007	2011	2011
Number of records	312	1	50	726
Number of individuals	982	1	85	2136
Unique positions	108	1	3	224
Unique locations	82	1	3	172
Adult records	304	1	50	710
Immature records	0	0	0	0

For the region, we have a total of 726 records from 172 sites. Earliest record on file is in 1905.

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Species Account

For further information refer UK Moths.

Davey, P., 2009: A locally common species in the south of England and Wales but becoming scarcer further north, the larva feeding on oak (Quercus spp.). In Dorset, the moth is common locally, frequenting old woods and localities containing much mature oak. Sites listed are similar to those for Oak Lutestring¹⁶⁵⁸. The moth is observed only very occasionally away from oak-bearing habitat.

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